Fivesparks

Pastel Painting - Spring Session
2025-04-09 10:00 - 12:30, 2025-04-16 10:00 - 12:30, 2025-04-30 10:00 - 12:30, 2025-05-07 10:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Fivesparks Gallery, 7 Fairbank Street, Harvard, MA, 01451, United States
This session will cover landscape and general pastel painting techniques.
Ann will cover topics of composition, color and mark-making in this session. Each class will start with a demo followed by plenty of one-on-one feedback at your easel. If you are new to pastels this class will also cover all the basics to get you started with exploring this diverse medium.
All pastel levels are welcome but some previous drawing or painting experience is necessary.
$300.
Six Wednesdays, March 26 – May 7, 2025 (no class on 4/23)
10:00am-12:30pm
Contact Ann to register and for a supply list and with any questions you have.

email: agillespieart@gmail.com anngillespieart.com

School Half Day Felting - Spring Bunny
2025-04-09 13:15 - 14:45 | Fivesparks Cove, 7 Fairbank Street, Harvard, MA, 01451, United States
Come to Fivesparks on some school half days to create some adorable Spring critters! Come to one, two, or all three sessions.
Wednesday 4/2- Spring Duck
Wednesday 4/9 – Spring Bunny
Wednesday 5/16- Spring Otter
1:15-2:45pm
$29 for 1 class, $54 for 2 or $78 for all 3.
This class is for 5th-7th graders
To sign up click here:

Painting with Wool - Monet-Inspired Waterlilies
2025-04-09 18:30 - 20:00 | Fivesparks Cove, 7 Fairbank Street, Harvard, MA, 01451, United States
Join Rachel at Fivesparks to learn the art of painting with wool. In this two-part class you will learn the art of painting with wool, using both wet felting and needle felting techniques. In class one, we will wet-felt a painterly wool base. In class two, we will needle-felt details on top of our bases. You will be guided step-by-step to create a scene similar to the one pictured. All levels welcome and all materials provided!
Two-Part Painting with Wool (Waterlilies)
Wednesday 4/2 & Wednesday 4/9
6:30-8pm
Open to adults and teens, $55 for the two-part class.
To Sign up click here:

Author Talk - An Evening with John Hanson Mitchell: The Sweet Revenge of Marcus Aurelius - Based on the True Story of a Slave Who Sold His Master
2025-04-10 19:30 - 20:30 | Fivesparks Gallery, 7 Fairbank Street, Harvard, MA, 01451, United States
Fivesparks is delighted to welcome John Hanson Mitchell, celebrated author of The Sweet Revenge of Marcus Aurelius, a compelling novel inspired by the true story of a talented and ingenious slave who outwitted his master.
Join us on Thursday, April 10, 2025, at 7:30 PM for a captivating journey into the incredible saga of Marcus Aurelius—a courageous and resourceful man who defied the odds, pursued freedom, and claimed a victory that reshaped his life.
In celebration of Black History Month, this event offers an opportunity to reflect, learn, and connect as Fivesparks honors the contributions and stories that shape our collective history.
Through Mitchell’s masterful storytelling, experience the dramatic twists of plantation life, daring escapes, high-society intrigue, and even pirate adventures. This extraordinary tale of resilience, humanity, and justice will leave you inspired and deeply moved.
Don’t miss this unique opportunity to hear from an award-winning author and environmental visionary whose work explores the profound connections between human stories and the natural world. The book will be available for purchase by cash or check.
Description:
The Sweet Revenge of Marcus Aurelius is based on the true story of a talented and ingenious slave who sold his master. When he was still a young house boy, Marcus Aurelius was taught to read and write by the plantation owner’s rebellious twelve-year-old daughter, who also instilled in him a passionate desire for freedom. She even encouraged him to escape, which he did – three different times – thus setting in motion his ultimate and sweetest revenge.
His story, even without fictionalizing, is a wide-ranging, swash-buckling tale of a fittingly just revenge set against many venues: the cruelties and dehumanizing effects of plantation life, a year in a unique community of escaped slaves in the Great Dismal Swamp, Paris high society in the Second Republic, duels, an enduring love affair, bad dogs and violent slave catchers, crime-ridden New Orleans street life, and even a stint as a passenger on a pirate ship.
About the Author:
John (Hanson Mitchell) has been working in the environmental field for most of his life, first as a naturalist and educator, and then as a writer for various environmental journals and magazines, and finally as an author.
For over 40 years he was the creator and editor of ‘Sanctuary’ , the award-winning journal of the Audubon Society of Massachusetts. In 1993, he was the winner of the John Burroughs Outstanding Natural History Essay Award for his ‘Sanctuary’ piece, Of Time and the River. His first book, Ceremonial Time: Fifteen Thousand Years on a Single Square Mile, was an ‘Editor’s Choice’ in the New York Times Book Review and set the stage for six more books, known as the ‘Scratch Flat’ series, which examine the interrelationship between human cultures and nature. In 2000, he was given the New England Booksellers Award for the body of his work.
Other books John has written deal with international travel, gardens, and the biography of Robert A Gilbert, a formerly unknown man John put on the map as the first African American landscape photographer. It was this book which led to John’s discovery of the man whose life became the source of Marcus Aurelius: the Slave Who Sold His Master.
Next spring, The Garden at the End of Time will be published. It will be the latest in John’s series of ‘Scratch Flat Chronicles’.
Learn more about John and his work at http://www.johnhansonmitchell.com/

Nature Journaling Workshop with AIR Artist Ann Marie Hershberger
2025-04-12 10:00 - 12:00 | Fivesparks Gallery, 7 Fairbank Street, Harvard, MA, 01451, United States
The workshop is full/registrations are closed. If you would like to attend this workshop at a later date, email us at admin@fivesparks.org. Thanks!
This workshop was originally scheduled as part of the annual Artists in Residence Program.
This is a wonderful opportunity to get hands-on creative with one of our AIR artists. Ann Marie will guide you through her method of nature journaling. This type of journaling has multiple benefits including appreciation for nature, improving/increasing observation/sketching skills, general enjoyment and reducing anxiety.
Delve into some basic sketching techniques and color application that can be applied to observations on your next hike, trip, or view from your own your backyard
Materials are FREE! A registration fee of $5 is required to hold your spot, as space is limited. This workshop is open to those 15yrs+.
Saturday, March 8, 10am-12pm.

This program is funded in part by a grant from the Harvard Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

Taiwan Mahjong for Beginners
2025-04-12 13:00 - 15:00, 2025-04-26 13:00 - 15:00, 2025-05-03 13:00 - 15:00 | Fivesparks Loft, 7 Fairbank Street, Harvard, MA, 01451, United States
Fay Childers has been playing and teaching Mahjong for years. She enjoys helping new players understand the game and grow to love it as much as she does.
Join this 5-week session to learn the basics so you can continue play on your own.
Taiwan Mahjong is a strategic game, easy to learn and fun to play. It is a four-person table game so bring a friend and have fun together.
5 Saturdays April 5 – May 10 (no class on 4/19). 1:00-3:00pm.
$125.
To register for this session, or with questions, contact Fay at faychilders@gmail.com
This class is best for adults (18+).

Free ARTIST TALK: Manifesting Storytelling in Sculptural Vessels by AIR Ceramicist Elizabeth Noonan
2025-04-12 15:30 - 16:30 | Fivesparks Gallery, 7 Fairbank Street, Harvard, MA, 01451, United States
THIS EVENT WAS ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED IN FEBRUARY 2025 AS A PART OF THE ANNUAL ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM.
As part of Artists in Residence, join us in the Fivesparks Gallery to listen to ceramicist Liz Noonan discuss her passion for melding storytelling and ceramics.
She will discuss how she uses sculptural pots to relay a narrative. and share the process and inspiration for her work. Including how memory, childhood, interactions with nature, and society help her to both weave and explore often competing values and ideas.
She will also share her technical process as a ceramic artist using porcelain and custom glazes to achieve certain effects which she feels prompts uninhibited joy.
This is a FREE event! Saturday, April 12, 2025. 3:30-4:30pm
This program is funded in part by a grant from the Harvard Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

The Revolution Sings Benefit Concert
2025-04-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Fivesparks Gallery, 7 Fairbank Street, Harvard, MA, 01451, United States
The concert is being produced by Musicians for the Greater Good, a non-profit network of musicians that supports social change organizations.
The Revolution Sings is a concert of protest and social justice music from throughout America’s history. It will be a benefit for the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts.
Performers include leading New England singer-songwriters, such as Tom Smith, the Lied Tos, Chris and John Boehmer, Howie Altholtz, Steve Azzaro, Mark Hastings, Karen Sauer, Tom Maynard, Dan Tappan, and Ron and Tristan Israel.
It will take place live on Friday, April 18, from 7:00-9:00 PM at Fivesparks, 7 Fairbanks Street, Harvard, Massachusetts, and also can be viewed via livestream.
Tickets to the live show are available at TheRevolutionSings.Eventbrite.Com and at the door.
The Live Stream will be available starting at 7:00 PM Friday the 18th at https://tinyurl.com/3ddjr6fx. Donations can be made at the following link https://tinyurl.com/ACLUM-MGG

Exhibit Mardie Luppold - Archetypes: Making the Invisible, Visible
2025-04-19 - 2025-05-24 | Fivesparks
On view April 19 – May 24, 2025.
Artist Reception Sunday, April 27, 4-6pm. Free and open to the public, live music and refreshments.
Mardie Luppold: Making the Invisible, Visible
If I say these images are archetypes, viewers might be confused, uncomfortable, or unfamiliar. If I say these images are shamanic, folks might feel strange, or even frightened. If I say these images are Kachinas, maybe people are able to come a little closer to them and will be able to access them easier, linking them to Native American culture: Kachinas therein are “deified spirits”. We all have them in us in the deep “roots of the mind,” archaic images from the collective unconscious, (thank you, Carl Jung). So, if we call them archetypes, it means the images are charged with psychic energy; they then becomes pieces of life because they are connected to the individual by the bridge of emotion and therefore become…living matter.
These are mine. We all have them. Creative folks simply keep the door open to the roots of the mind; going to the well to draw up an image, a melody, a dance, a poem, story, garden, building, dinner… Whatever it is, it is charged with emotionality; sometimes beautiful, sometimes comforting, sometimes uncomfortable.
Again, these are mine. Each of us will have our own cluster of feelings, characters, sounds and words. If we call them shamanic, then it simply means these creations are bridging the space, the energy between spirit and daily reality.
In any case, this is where these images come from, and why I call it, “Making the Invisible, Visible.” Some take a while to draw up from the depths of the well; some come more quickly and easily; some feel pleasant and some frightening. They are a coalescence of Native American teachings; Jungian theory; Neolithic and Paleolithic excavations, (Marija Giumbutas); which I have merged in each painting, done in acrylic, some with iridescence for emphasis. They are, in essence, what came to me from the well.

Free Poetry Reading - Special Art Exhibit Event
2025-04-19 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-05-03 14:00 - 16:00 | Fivesparks Gallery, 7 Fairbank Street, Harvard, MA, 01451, United States
Free Poetry Reading
Come to Fivesparks to enjoy listening to area poets read works that are inspired by the artwork of Mardie Luppold on display as part of her exhibit Archetypes: Making the Invisible, Visible.
Feel free to stop in between 2:00-4:00pm and experience this interplay between spoken word and visual art. Participating poets are Jim Laughlin, Daniel Junkins, Tom Laughlin and Sarah Laughlin.
– Tom Laughlin – Professor at Middlesex Community College in Lowell and Bedford.
– Jim Laughlin – Leadership Consultant and poet; taught at Virginia Tech; studied with Donald Junkins at UMass Amherst.
– Daniel Junkins – Leukemia Survivor/Consultant and poet; studied at UMass. Amherst.
– Sarah Laughlin – Restorative Clinician/ Social Service Expert
This is a free event, donations are always welcome.

Portrait Session with Mardie Luppold
2025-04-24 12:00 - 14:30, 2025-04-30 12:00 - 14:30, 2025-05-01 12:00 - 14:30, 2025-05-07 12:00 - 14:30, 2025-05-08 12:00 - 14:30 | Fivesparks
Exhibiting artist Mardie Luppold will draw your portrait!
Come and visit Mardie’s varied collection of work, ranging from delicate portraits to mysterious Kachinas. You can make an appointment with Mardie on Wednesdays or Thursdays, from 12noon-2:30pm to have your own portrait drawn in pencil! Mardie’s portraits are both abstract and realistic, each containing an element of pristine clarity and focus.
Fee of $175 per portrait, of which a portion will be donated by Mardie to Fivesparks to help us continue our mission of bringing wonderful art and cultural experiences to our community.
Portraits may be drawn in real time, or via a photograph, to be determined between you and Mardie. If you have questions or want to schedule an appointment, send an email to admin@fivesparks.org. Sessions can be scheduled on Wednesdays or Thursdays, April 24 – May 22, 2025.

Chat with Mardie
2025-04-24 12:00 - 14:30, 2025-05-01 12:00 - 14:30 | Fivesparks
Exhibiting artist Mardie Luppold will be at Fivesparks on Wednesdays and Thursdays throughout her exhibit to talk with visitors.
She welcomes your insights, questions, curiosities and reactions to her varied works on display as part of her current show Archetypes: Making the Invisible, Visible.
Mardie has a lifetime of fascinating experiences that translate into her work. You will gain a wealth of understanding by talking with her.
Stop in on Wednesdays of Thursdays between 12:00-2:30pm, through the end of the exhibit, May 24, 2025.

Artist Reception - Archetypes: Making the Invisible, Visible
2025-04-27 16:00 - 18:00 | Fivesparks
Join us at Fivesparks for our latest exhibit Artist Reception.
Mardie Luppold – Archetypes: Making the Invisible, Visible
Meet Mardie and enjoy light refreshments and jazz music by vocalist Maggie Galloway, Bob Nieske on acoustic bass and Billy Novick on clarinet.
Sunday, April 27, 4-6pm
Free and open to all.

Chat with Mardie
2025-04-30 12:00 - 14:30, 2025-05-07 12:00 - 14:30 | Fivesparks
Exhibiting artist Mardie Luppold will be at Fivesparks on Wednesdays and Thursdays throughout her exhibit to talk with visitors.
She welcomes your insights, questions, curiosities and reactions to her varied works on display as part of her current show Archetypes: Making the Invisible, Visible.
Mardie has a lifetime of fascinating experiences that translate into her work. You will gain a wealth of understanding by talking with her.
Stop in on Wednesdays or Thursdays between 12:00-2:30pm, through the end of the exhibit, May 24, 2025.

Exhibiting Artist Talk with Mardie Luppold
2025-04-30 14:00 - 15:30 | Fivesparks Gallery, 7 Fairbank Street, Harvard, MA, 01451, United States
Join us on Wednesday, April 30 at 2pm to hear exhibiting artist Mardie Luppold share the inspirations behind her collection on display in the Fivesparks Gallery – Archetypes: Making the Invisible, Visible.
Mardie will fascinate you in describing her progression of interests and in-depth studies of ancient cultures and belief systems that resulted in the creation of the ‘Kachina’ series. References of Baba Yaga and deified spirits dating from neolithic and paleolithic times, the study of work by Marija Giumbutas in excavating neolithic and paleolithic matrilineal societies, and cultures similar to our own First Nations in North and South America as well as contemporary examples in Siberia and Central Asia. The existence of Denisovan DNA in modern-day shamanistic peoples, such as Tibetans, Amazonian and Southeast Pacific peoples, among others, will be discussed.
Finally, Jungian theory ties it all together with exploration of the ‘Collective Unconsciousness,’ wherein lies the archetypes, racial memory, planetary and galactic memory, and our connection to the Earth, each other and all sentient life.
This is a free event.

Fivesparks Theater presents: CONSTELLATIONS, by Nick Payne
2025-05-02 19:30 - 21:00 | Fivesparks Gallery, 7 Fairbank Street, Harvard, MA, 01451, United States
Fivesparks Theater is excited to announce its first show, Constellations, by British playwright Nick Payne.
Constellations is set in the multiverse and explores the various versions of the evolving relationship between Marianne, a theoretical physicist, and Roland, a beekeeper. In addition to being an acting tour de force, the play is a provocative and poignant meditation on love, friendship and possibility – as well as string theory and quantum mechanics.
Performance Dates: May 2, 3, 4 (matinee), 15, 16 and 17, 2025. PURCHASE TICKETS HERE.
NOTE: ONLINE TICKET SALES END at 12:00pm on the performance date.
SEATING IS LIMITED, but if seats remain, tickets may be purchased at the door!
CAST

Michelle Mount has been acting with theater companies in Massachusetts for the past twenty years. At Vokes Players, her credits include: Sea Marks (Timothea), Communicating Doors (Jessica), Cyrano de Bergerac (Roxane), Harvey (Myrtle Mae), A Man of No Importance (Adele), Richard III (Lady Anne), Amadeus (Constanze). At Arlington Friends of the Drama: Court-Martial at Fort Devens (Lawson), Dancing at Lughnasa (Chris), Boeing Boeing (Gretchen), To Kill a Mockingbird (Mayella Ewell). At Concord Players: The 39 Steps (The Girl: Annabella, Pamela, Margaret), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Maggie). At Quannapowitt Players: Dearly Beloved (Frankie). At Gazebo Players: Much Ado About Nothing (Hero). At Turtle Lane Playhouse: The Secret Garden (Martha). At Needham Community Theatre: The Crucible (Abigail). At Theater Company of Saugus: The Glass Menagerie (Laura). Michelle is a theater educator with a Master of Liberal Arts in Dramatic Arts from Harvard University Extension School. She completed the Advanced Graduate Study Program in Teacher Leadership at Brandeis University.

Jason Myatt is thrilled to be a part of the inaugural Fivesparks Theater production! Jason has performed with many Boston-area theaters over the years, with credits that include: Hovey Players: Stupid F#cking Bird (Sorn), The Clean House (Charles), Maytag Virgin (Jack), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bottom), Rocket Man (Donny), Twelfth Night (Malvolio). Umbrella Stage Company: The Minutes (Mr. Assalone), To Kill a Mockingbird (Gilmer/Cunningham), Glengarry Glen Ross (Moss), Dear Elizabeth (Robert Lowell). Quannapowitt Players: Clybourne Park (Karl/Steve), Terra Nova (Evans), November (President Smith), Becky’s New Car (Steve), All My Sons (George), Much Ado About Nothing (Dogberry). Acme Theater: Brooklyn Boy (Eric), Moon Over the Brewery (Warren), Coyote on a Fence (Brennan), Self Help (Hal). Vokes Theater: Murder on the Orient Express (Ratchett), Sense and Sensibility (Colonel Brandon), Bus Stop (Dr Lyman). Burlington Players: The Book of Will (John Heminges). Theatre Cooperative: Endgame (Clov), Waiting For Godot (Lucky), Romulus (Romulus), The Taming Of The Shrew (Petruchio).
Director, Producer: Bob Eiland
Stage Manager: Carolyn Mitchell
Scene Design: Chris Kimball
Sign Language Consultant and Production Photographer: Sanjay Gulati
Bob Eiland has directed, acted in, written and produced a great many shows over the years, including in venues such as Stageloft Rep, Arlington Friends of the Drama, Image Theatre of Lowell, Cannon Theatre where he is on the Board, and Fivesparks Theater. He is founder of the Shakespeare in the Park group, The Gazebo Players; and for over a decade produced, directed and acted in staged readings of Old Time Radio Theater shows for Harvard Friends of the Arts. Some of his favorite directorial endeavors include The Miracle Worker, To Kill a Mockingbird, Night of the Iguana and Arsenic and Old Lace. Some of his favorite acting roles include Charly in Flowers for Algernon, John Proctor in The Crucible, Ford in Merry Wives of Windsor, Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing, Mortimer in Arsenic and Old Lace, Biff in Death of a Salesman and Sam in Philosophical Differences, one of his original plays.

This program is funded in part by a grant from the Harvard Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

Fivesparks Theater presents: CONSTELLATIONS, by Nick Payne
2025-05-03 19:30 - 21:00 | Fivesparks Gallery, 7 Fairbank Street, Harvard, MA, 01451, United States
Fivesparks Theater is excited to announce its first show, Constellations, by British playwright Nick Payne.
Constellations is set in the multiverse and explores the various versions of the evolving relationship between Marianne, a theoretical physicist, and Roland, a beekeeper. In addition to being an acting tour de force, the play is a provocative and poignant meditation on love, friendship and possibility – as well as string theory and quantum mechanics.
Performance Dates: May 16 and 17, 2025. PURCHASE TICKETS HERE.
NOTE: ONLINE TICKET SALES ENDED at 12:00pm. SEATING IS LIMITED, but if seats remain, tickets may be available at the door. Fewer than 5 seats remain as of 12pm today.
CAST

Michelle Mount has been acting with theater companies in Massachusetts for the past twenty years. At Vokes Players, her credits include: Sea Marks (Timothea), Communicating Doors (Jessica), Cyrano de Bergerac (Roxane), Harvey (Myrtle Mae), A Man of No Importance (Adele), Richard III (Lady Anne), Amadeus (Constanze). At Arlington Friends of the Drama: Court-Martial at Fort Devens (Lawson), Dancing at Lughnasa (Chris), Boeing Boeing (Gretchen), To Kill a Mockingbird (Mayella Ewell). At Concord Players: The 39 Steps (The Girl: Annabella, Pamela, Margaret), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Maggie). At Quannapowitt Players: Dearly Beloved (Frankie). At Gazebo Players: Much Ado About Nothing (Hero). At Turtle Lane Playhouse: The Secret Garden (Martha). At Needham Community Theatre: The Crucible (Abigail). At Theater Company of Saugus: The Glass Menagerie (Laura). Michelle is a theater educator with a Master of Liberal Arts in Dramatic Arts from Harvard University Extension School. She completed the Advanced Graduate Study Program in Teacher Leadership at Brandeis University.

Jason Myatt is thrilled to be a part of the inaugural Fivesparks Theater production! Jason has performed with many Boston-area theaters over the years, with credits that include: Hovey Players: Stupid F#cking Bird (Sorn), The Clean House (Charles), Maytag Virgin (Jack), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bottom), Rocket Man (Donny), Twelfth Night (Malvolio). Umbrella Stage Company: The Minutes (Mr. Assalone), To Kill a Mockingbird (Gilmer/Cunningham), Glengarry Glen Ross (Moss), Dear Elizabeth (Robert Lowell). Quannapowitt Players: Clybourne Park (Karl/Steve), Terra Nova (Evans), November (President Smith), Becky’s New Car (Steve), All My Sons (George), Much Ado About Nothing (Dogberry). Acme Theater: Brooklyn Boy (Eric), Moon Over the Brewery (Warren), Coyote on a Fence (Brennan), Self Help (Hal). Vokes Theater: Murder on the Orient Express (Ratchett), Sense and Sensibility (Colonel Brandon), Bus Stop (Dr Lyman). Burlington Players: The Book of Will (John Heminges). Theatre Cooperative: Endgame (Clov), Waiting For Godot (Lucky), Romulus (Romulus), The Taming Of The Shrew (Petruchio).
Director, Producer: Bob Eiland
Stage Manager: Carolyn Mitchell
Scene Design: Chris Kimball
Sign Language Consultant and Production Photographer: Sanjay Gulati
Bob Eiland has directed, acted in, written and produced a great many shows over the years, including in venues such as Stageloft Rep, Arlington Friends of the Drama, Image Theatre of Lowell, Cannon Theatre where he is on the Board, and Fivesparks Theater. He is founder of the Shakespeare in the Park group, The Gazebo Players; and for over a decade produced, directed and acted in staged readings of Old Time Radio Theater shows for Harvard Friends of the Arts. Some of his favorite directorial endeavors include The Miracle Worker, To Kill a Mockingbird, Night of the Iguana and Arsenic and Old Lace. Some of his favorite acting roles include Charly in Flowers for Algernon, John Proctor in The Crucible, Ford in Merry Wives of Windsor, Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing, Mortimer in Arsenic and Old Lace, Biff in Death of a Salesman and Sam in Philosophical Differences, one of his original plays.

This program is funded in part by a grant from the Harvard Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

Fivesparks Theater presents: CONSTELLATIONS, by Nick Payne
2025-05-04 14:00 - 15:30 | Fivesparks Gallery, 7 Fairbank Street, Harvard, MA, 01451, United States
Fivesparks Theater is excited to announce its first show, Constellations, by British playwright Nick Payne.
Constellations is set in the multiverse and explores the various versions of the evolving relationship between Marianne, a theoretical physicist, and Roland, a beekeeper. In addition to being an acting tour de force, the play is a provocative and poignant meditation on love, friendship and possibility – as well as string theory and quantum mechanics.
Performance Dates: May 2, 3, 4 (matinee), 15, 16 and 17, 2025. PURCHASE TICKETS HERE.
*** NOTE: ONLINE TICKET SALES END at 12:00pm on the performance date; tickets can still be purchased at the door! ***
CAST

Michelle Mount has been acting with theater companies in Massachusetts for the past twenty years. At Vokes Players, her credits include: Sea Marks (Timothea), Communicating Doors (Jessica), Cyrano de Bergerac (Roxane), Harvey (Myrtle Mae), A Man of No Importance (Adele), Richard III (Lady Anne), Amadeus (Constanze). At Arlington Friends of the Drama: Court-Martial at Fort Devens (Lawson), Dancing at Lughnasa (Chris), Boeing Boeing (Gretchen), To Kill a Mockingbird (Mayella Ewell). At Concord Players: The 39 Steps (The Girl: Annabella, Pamela, Margaret), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Maggie). At Quannapowitt Players: Dearly Beloved (Frankie). At Gazebo Players: Much Ado About Nothing (Hero). At Turtle Lane Playhouse: The Secret Garden (Martha). At Needham Community Theatre: The Crucible (Abigail). At Theater Company of Saugus: The Glass Menagerie (Laura). Michelle is a theater educator with a Master of Liberal Arts in Dramatic Arts from Harvard University Extension School. She completed the Advanced Graduate Study Program in Teacher Leadership at Brandeis University.

Jason Myatt is thrilled to be a part of the inaugural Fivesparks Theater production! Jason has performed with many Boston-area theaters over the years, with credits that include: Hovey Players: Stupid F#cking Bird (Sorn), The Clean House (Charles), Maytag Virgin (Jack), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bottom), Rocket Man (Donny), Twelfth Night (Malvolio). Umbrella Stage Company: The Minutes (Mr. Assalone), To Kill a Mockingbird (Gilmer/Cunningham), Glengarry Glen Ross (Moss), Dear Elizabeth (Robert Lowell). Quannapowitt Players: Clybourne Park (Karl/Steve), Terra Nova (Evans), November (President Smith), Becky’s New Car (Steve), All My Sons (George), Much Ado About Nothing (Dogberry). Acme Theater: Brooklyn Boy (Eric), Moon Over the Brewery (Warren), Coyote on a Fence (Brennan), Self Help (Hal). Vokes Theater: Murder on the Orient Express (Ratchett), Sense and Sensibility (Colonel Brandon), Bus Stop (Dr Lyman). Burlington Players: The Book of Will (John Heminges). Theatre Cooperative: Endgame (Clov), Waiting For Godot (Lucky), Romulus (Romulus), The Taming Of The Shrew (Petruchio).
Director, Producer: Bob Eiland
Stage Manager: Carolyn Mitchell
Scene Design: Chris Kimball
Sign Language Consultant and Production Photographer: Sanjay Gulati
Bob Eiland has directed, acted in, written and produced a great many shows over the years, including in venues such as Stageloft Rep, Arlington Friends of the Drama, Image Theatre of Lowell, Cannon Theatre where he is on the Board, and Fivesparks Theater. He is founder of the Shakespeare in the Park group, The Gazebo Players; and for over a decade produced, directed and acted in staged readings of Old Time Radio Theater shows for Harvard Friends of the Arts. Some of his favorite directorial endeavors include The Miracle Worker, To Kill a Mockingbird, Night of the Iguana and Arsenic and Old Lace. Some of his favorite acting roles include Charly in Flowers for Algernon, John Proctor in The Crucible, Ford in Merry Wives of Windsor, Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing, Mortimer in Arsenic and Old Lace, Biff in Death of a Salesman and Sam in Philosophical Differences, one of his original plays.

This program is funded in part by a grant from the Harvard Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.
